Course Outline: Strand 1:Social and ethical significance(60hrs hrs of teaching time for the Higher level-20hrs is from the extension project) Strand 2: Application to specified scenarios
Draft Target Dates for Strand 2 2.1- Business and employment
3 lessons Thu 26th Oct
2.2-Education and training
5 lessons Wed 31st Oct
2.3-Environment
6 lessons Wed 14th Nov
2.4-Health
4 lessons 22nd Nov
2.5-Home and leisure
6 lessons 6th Dec
2.6-Politics and government
6 lessons Jan 10th 2013
January 2013
Week 14th-18th-reflection & assessment
Completed on (Put date)
What is this course all about?
Although ITGS shares methods of critical investigation and analysis with other social sciences, it also considers social and ethical considerations that are common to other subjects in group 3. Students come into contact
with IT on a daily basis because it is so pervasive in the world in which we live. This increasingly widespread
use of IT inevitably raises important questions with regard to the social and ethical considerations that
shape our society today. ITGS offers an opportunity for a systematic study of these considerations, whose
range is such that they fall outside the scope of any other single discipline.
Assessment objective 1: Knowledge and understanding of specified content
• Demonstrate an awareness of IT applications and developments in specified scenarios
• Demonstrate an awareness of the social and ethical significance of specified IT applications and
developments
• Demonstrate technical knowledge of ITGS terminology, concepts and tools
• Demonstrate technical knowledge of IT systems • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of topics related to the annually issued case study (HL paper 3 only) Assessment objective 2: Application and analysis
• Explain the impacts of IT applications and developments in specified scenarios
• Analyse the social and ethical significance of specified IT applications and developments
• Transfer IT knowledge and make connections between specific scenarios • Apply technical knowledge of IT systems acquired through independent research to provide supporting evidence in possible decisions relating to future courses of action related to the annually issued case study (HL paper 3 only) Assessment objective 3: Synthesis and evaluation
• Evaluate local and global impacts of specified IT developments through individually researched
studies
• Evaluate a solution involving IT to a specified problem using knowledge of IT systems
• Discuss the social and ethical implications of specified IT policies and developments • Evaluate, formulate and justify possible strategic courses of action related to the annually issued case study (HL paper 3 only) Assessment objective 4: Use of ITGS skills
• Demonstrate evidence of project management in the development of a well-organized product to
resolve a specific issue
• Use IT tools and the product development life cycle (PDLC) to create an original product in consultation
with a client
• Demonstrate evidence of the use of appropriate techniques to develop an original IT product
Teacher: Mr Trofimczuk: info@troftech.com
Starting date: August 2012
Detailed Course Outline:
Course Outline:
Strand 1: Social and ethical significance (60hrs hrs of teaching time for the Higher level-20hrs is from the extension project)
Strand 2: Application to specified scenarios
2.1- Business and employment
- 3 lessons Thu 26th Oct
2.2-Education and training- 5 lessons Wed 31st Oct
2.3-Environment- 6 lessons Wed 14th Nov
2.4-Health- 4 lessons 22nd Nov
2.5-Home and leisure- 6 lessons 6th Dec
2.6-Politics and government- 6 lessons Jan 10th 2013
January 2013What is this course all about?
Although ITGS shares methods of critical investigation and analysis with other social sciences, it also considerssocial and ethical considerations that are common to other subjects in group 3. Students come into contact
with IT on a daily basis because it is so pervasive in the world in which we live. This increasingly widespread
use of IT inevitably raises important questions with regard to the social and ethical considerations that
shape our society today. ITGS offers an opportunity for a systematic study of these considerations, whose
range is such that they fall outside the scope of any other single discipline.
Assessment objective 1:
Knowledge and understanding of specified content
• Demonstrate an awareness of IT applications and developments in specified scenarios
• Demonstrate an awareness of the social and ethical significance of specified IT applications and
developments
• Demonstrate technical knowledge of ITGS terminology, concepts and tools
• Demonstrate technical knowledge of IT systems
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of topics related to the annually issued case study (HL
paper 3 only)
Assessment objective 2:
Application and analysis
• Explain the impacts of IT applications and developments in specified scenarios
• Analyse the social and ethical significance of specified IT applications and developments
• Transfer IT knowledge and make connections between specific scenarios
• Apply technical knowledge of IT systems acquired through independent research to provide
supporting evidence in possible decisions relating to future courses of action related to the annually
issued case study (HL paper 3 only)
Assessment objective 3:
Synthesis and evaluation
• Evaluate local and global impacts of specified IT developments through individually researched
studies
• Evaluate a solution involving IT to a specified problem using knowledge of IT systems
• Discuss the social and ethical implications of specified IT policies and developments
• Evaluate, formulate and justify possible strategic courses of action related to the annually issued case
study (HL paper 3 only)
Assessment objective 4:
Use of ITGS skills
• Demonstrate evidence of project management in the development of a well-organized product to
resolve a specific issue
• Use IT tools and the product development life cycle (PDLC) to create an original product in consultation
with a client
• Demonstrate evidence of the use of appropriate techniques to develop an original IT product